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    Why US Democracy Is Failing – and How to Restore It

    Mordecai Kurz argues that four decades of technological change and free-market public policy fueled an inevitable backlash.
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    The US Is Losing Its Technological Edge

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    PS editors , William H. Janeway , Carl Benedikt Frey , Qiyuan Xu , Wang Yaqiang , Mariana Mazzucato , Bengt-Åke Lundvall , Sergei Guriev

    From the Cold War of the twentieth century to today’s US-China rivalry, technology has been a prominent feature of superpower competition. This worked well for the United States in the past, but with Donald Trump’s administration apparently intent on destroying America’s vaunted innovation ecosystem, it is far from clear who will come out on top this time.

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    The Tragedy of Emmanuel Macron

    Jean-Baptiste Wautier explains how a once-promising leader failed to realize his ambitions and unwittingly fueled extremism.
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    The Green Key to Germany’s Economic Recovery

    Gernot Wagner examines the complexities of the country's most consequential policy challenge: sky-high electricity costs.
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    The US Dollar’s Fall from Grace

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    PS editors , Barry Eichengreen , Simon Johnson , Erkki Liikanen , Harold James , Kenneth Rogoff , Philippe Legrain , Hélène Rey

    Despite his stated commitment to maintaining the dollar’s global dominance, US President Donald Trump is actively undermining the value of – and confidence in – the greenback. This does not bode well for the “exorbitant privilege” that the dollar’s status as the main international reserve currency has long bestowed on the US, though it does create space for possible replacements.

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    The Twilight of Bretton Woods

    Giancarlo Corsetti charts the decline of multilateral cooperation and the resurgence of protectionist trade policies.
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    Lessons from a Scholar of Power

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    Over his long career in government and academia, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., transformed the field of international relations, one of his seminal contributions being the concept of “soft power,” or states’ ability to influence others without resorting to coercion or payoffs. Following his passing, it is worth reflecting on his legacy – including the current issues and challenges that most preoccupied him.

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    One Hundred Days of Lawlessness

    Harold Hongju Koh surveys the political and legal factors that paved the way to Donald Trump's autocratic presidency.
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    A World of Unintended Consequences

    Edward Tenner shows that the unanticipated effects of new technologies seem to far outnumber the intended ones.
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    King Dollar’s Shaky Crown

    Maurice Obstfeld warns that fragmenting capital markets are putting the greenback’s global primacy at risk.
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    Will Trump’s Tariffs Transform the Global Economy?

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    PS editors, Dambisa Moyo, Jayati Ghosh, Richard K. Sherwin, Jeremy Adelman, Mark Blyth, Jim O'Neill, Nancy Qian, Daniel Gros, Shlomo Ben-Ami

    While US President Donald Trump has paused his “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days, many levies remain in place, and a global trade war is increasingly likely. But while US protectionism will undoubtedly do serious damage, there are options for limiting its fallout.

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    Development Without Aid

    Minouche Shafik argues that shrinking international support has put a premium on resource sharing and expertise.
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    Opposing Trump

    Adam Michnik interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about the new US administration and how pro-democracy forces can best confront it.

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